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Microsoft's Core Search VP now findable

As of this week, Microsoft has finally put Brian MacDonald on the page. MacDonald, the corporate vice president of Core Search Program Management, is the former manager of Microsoft's stealth NetDocs project (not that his new bio on Microsoft's Web site mentions that fact.)
Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing Editor

After a Microsoft reorg, it's always fun to comb through the official Microsoft bio page and see who (and what) was added and deleted.

One find: As of this week, Microsoft has finally put Brian MacDonald on the page.

MacDonald, corporate vice president of Core Search Program Management, " leads the program management team, overseeing the product feature set design and strategy for Live Search," according to the new bio entry, dated February 13.

MacDonald actually rejoined Microsoft last summer. He took at job at Microsoft for the first time in 1989, when Microsoft purchased his company and turned its technology into Microsoft Project. MacDonald later led the group that built Microsoft’s Outlook e-mail client. He subsequently went on to work on Microsoft’s .Net Services Group, which in the early 1990s. In that role, he was the Senior Vice President in charge of Subscription Services.

For some odd reason, MacDonald's new bio doesn't mention that he ran NetDocs, Microsoft's stealth Web-based productivity suite that could have beat Google Docs to market by years, if it hadn't been killed by Microsoft for competing with Microsoft Office.

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